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Seminar Series   2007-2008

Preview of Fall 2008

Roger T. Hanlon, PhD

Marine Biologist, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

November 11,  2008 

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Past  Lectures

April 22, 2008                        

Margaret Livingstone, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard University

What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain

Co-sponsored with Creative Arts Council

April 3, 2008

Earl Miller, PhD

Professor of Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rules, Concepts and Executive Brain Functions

Co-sponsored with Dept. of Neuroscience

March 11, 2008            

William Tsiaras, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Surgery (Ophthalmology) at Brown University

Chairman of Ophthalmology at Rhode Island Hospital

Angiogenesis and Vision Disorders

February 26, 2008  

Inaugural Lecture

Charles Gross, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology, Princeton University

The Discovery of ‘Face Selective’ Cells in Temporal Cortex

January  31, 2008

John Maunsell, PhD

Harvard Medical School

How attention alters sensory representations in monkey visual cortex

Co-sponsored with Dept. of Neuroscience

 

CVR News

Carlos Aizenman

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience,

received an NSF Career Award for his

project entitled "Cellular determinants

of visual system function and

development" (March 2008)

Michael J. Black

Professor of Computer Science,

received a Rhode Island Science and

Technology Advisory Council (STAC)

grant for collaboration with the Rhode

State Police on forensic computer

vision (March 2008)

Odest Chadwicke (Chad) Jenkins

Assistant Professor of Computer

Science, received a Presidential Early

Career Award for Scientists and

Engineers (PECASE) for outstanding

contributions to his field. Chad

received his award during a White

House ceremony (November 2007).